THE MOUNTAIN WAR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2909, 23 October 1916, Page 5

THE MOUNTAIN WAR

FOUR ATTACKS BEATEN BACK Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, October 20. An Italian communique . states: — "Four massed attacks by tho KaisorJagors at Mount Pasubio Tooth wore mown down. Tho greater part of tho position remains ours." SHELLING TRIESTE ITALIAN BIG GUNS AT WORK (Rcc. October ¥2, 5.5 p.m.) Rome, October 21. Military critics point out that the • methods of tho Italian offensivo on tho Carso are the same as those of tho Franco-British on tho Sommo, and the Italian attacks will be maintained with tho same steady, methodical persistence Owing to tho lack of reserves, the Austrian forces on the Carso are diminishing with alarming rapidity. Tho lull in'tho attack merely means that the Italians are advancing their batteries Wo or thrco kilometres. Shells of the biggost Italian guns aro now falling on the Austrian fortifications at Trieste. ON MOUNT LAGUZONI STRONG POSITION CAPTURED Tho High Commissioner reports:— London, October 21, 6 p.m. Italian official:—"We progressed in tho. region of'Roite, taking 32 prisoners. "On the eastern slopes of Mount Laguzoni the Alpiners surrounded a, strong enemy position, -which we carried during a blizzard at the point of tho bayonet, the garrison being almost completely annihilated." SERIOUS EPIDEMICS TYPHOID IN TRffiSTE Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. October 22, 5.5 p.m.) Rome, October 21. A resident of Trieste, writing to the "Secolo," states that since the aqueduct was cut serious epidemics have in the city. The drinking of well-water lias been forbidden, _ as it caused typhoid, and the hospital is full. There is a serious shortage of disinfectants. OF AUSTRIA MURDERED AT THE DINNER TABLE (Rec. October 22, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, October 20. Count Stuergkhs, the Premier of Austria, has been murdered at the dinner table. The publisher of a review, named Adler, obtained admittance and fired five revolver shots at Stuergkhs. GERMAN POLISH LEGION FOUR BRIGADES MUTINY Australian-New Zealand Cable- Association. (Rec. October 21, 6.10 p.m.) Berne 1 , October 20. The creation of a German Polish Legion has proved a fiasco. The Germans enrolled 18,000 Poles to fight Russia, four brigades,, numbering 12,000, mutinied at the-beginning of October, and were imprisoned at Brestlitovsk, and 6000 others were sent to the interior of Austria as unreliables. The Legion enlisted in the belief that it •was going to fight for an independent Poland, and now discovered that it was fighting to perpetuate Germaa tyranny. . M.P. FINED £100 BREACH OF DEFENCE OF REALM ACT (Renter's Telegram.) (Rec. October 22, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 20. Mr. J. King, M.P. for Somerset N., has been fined a hundred pounds sterling under the Defence of the Realm Act for the communication of information in respect to tho supply and condition of certain war material m a letter to George Raffalovitch, of NewYork. The prosecution stated that King's letter made sensational statements which were published in America by the news agency of which Raffalovitch was a representative, and wirelessed to Germany and published in the German Press. King afterwards wrote to Mr. Lloyd George, and stated that when he wrote to Raffalovitch he had no doubts about the latter's loyalty, and was greatly distressed over the affair.